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The exhibition Rendez-vous 13 created in 2002 – an international platform by macLYON, the Institut d’Art Contemporain of Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpesand the ENSBA fine-arts school in Lyon, co-devised with 10 curators of biennials (Dakar, Gwangju, Istanbul, Kiev, Kochi Muziris, Los Angeles, SaoPaulo, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney) – features 20 artists from five continents, including 10 resident in France, in association with a team of young graphic designers.

The artists 2013 : Mathilde Barrio Nuevo, Sophie Bonnet Pourpet,Thibault Brunet, Jean-Alain Corre, Dan Finsel, André Fortino, NikitaKadan, Karim Kal, Guillaume Louot, Paribartana Mohanty, Nicolas Momein, Nelly Monnier, Mathilde Du Sordet, Hasan & Husain Essop,Paula Kraus, Charles Lim, Angelica Mesiti, Iz Öztat, Part Time Suiteet Lu Yang.

In Euronews’ new building, artistsOliver Beer, Julian Charrière, Benoît Pype and Jeremy Shawpresent work “informed by the fragility and precariousness of knowledge, understanding and languages”.

Justine Pluvinage, NoneFutbol-Club and Pierre Seinturier, winners of the 58th Salon de Montrouge, take over the Museum of Textiles. A unique opportunity for the public to engage with thework of emerging artists.

Artist Bruno Botella humorously portrays darkly absurd situations through the confinement orendless repetition that they evoke. With quasi-scientific experiments, and through his sculptures, he invents modes of reproducing images and forms that stem from perception - and cognition - related traps and from hallucinations.

For his exhibition at this centralLyon hospital, David Malek isshowing a collection of site-specificworks. Embracing a materialisticapproach to art, Malek’s paintingstems from a belief in rationalism.

Jennifer Caubet’s exhibition leads us into virtual spaces using fragments and architectural grafts that temporarily occupy the venue.

Mort à crédit et en stéréo is a feature-length exhibition, i.e. anexhibition devised as a film which could have as its teaser this statementby Edward Steichen: “An exhibition is a film in which you move around and the pictures stay still”.

Anne and Patrick Poirier explore the sites and remains of ancient civilisations, breathing fresh life into them through miniature reconstructions. Their works are reinventions of a past that mergesreal places, dreamed landscapes, imagined ruins and archaeological fragments.

Laurent Mulot’s artistic activity isorganised by a long-term generic work called Middle of Nowhere. It tells the story of phantom art centres that he marks with a simple plaque in places around the world.

Renowned French sculptor Didier Marcel plays on the ambiguity between natural and artificial in hisplant or mineral casts.

To celebrate 30 years of unfailing support for artists from Rhône-Alpes, the region’s visual arts information centre (MAPRA) wanted to stage a network of eight exhibitions reflecting the spirit of its work across the creative spectrum and in all kinds of venues and locations around the region.

Twenty young artists active in Rhône-Alpes are invited to showwork at three sites: a factory (Novaciéries in Saint-Chamond), a Le Corbusier-designed church (Eglise Saint-Pierre in Firminy) and a museum (Greater Saint-EtienneMuseum of Modern Art) to kindle a dialogue between architecture, usage, and collective and individual memories.